5e is fine but I also love indie games and creators
- OSR = Old School Revival
- PbtA = Powered by the Apocalypse
- FitD = Forged in the Dark
I only know the middle one! I’ll check the rest out!
Forged in the dark are games that use blades in the dark which is a powered by the apocalypse game, so you’ll pick them up quickly. Blades is an amazing game so I’d absolutely recommend this.
OSR games are definitely for a specific taste, they try to capture the early TTRPG era dungeon crawl tone over the very narrative forward modern TTRPG, which personally is the opposite direction from where my tastes have trended from 5e.
Old-School Runescape as a TTRPG sounds interesting
As long as we are capturing the world and not the grind. Could you imagine partying up and your DM narrates chopping yews for 4 hours? Lmao “you failed your one tick check”
Many years ago, our party found itself on a boat going down a river. With nothing better to do, we started fishing, hoping for the plot to continue after a couple of inconsequential dice rolls.
It didn’t. We literally spent hours irl rolling dice to fish because our DM was very clearly not interested in running an actual game that day.
We soon started playing without him, bit I think that is the closest I ever got to OSR the ttrpg.
As the forever DM of my group, I am always willing to be a PC in a players game no matter the system (so far)… because I just want to play haha. I do only really run D&D myself though haha. We have talked about swapping to PE though because of Hasbro…
If you do make that change I’d really recommend playing a couple of oneshots between the switch with totally different systems. I’m finally exploring different TTRPGs now and it’s made me realise I was doing the equivalent of only watching one franchise film series with all of cinema available.
I’ve had a killer time with FATE, City of Mist and Blades in the Dark.
I’ve absolutely loved narrative heavy oneshot games like Alice is Missing, For the Queen and Ten Candles.
I’ve enjoyed collaborative worldbuilding games like The Quiet year and Microscope (or anything else made by Ben Robbins), although I do think these are best to build a setting to play in because they leave some specific itch unscratched.
You know what your players like, I know mine are split between wanting to feel like they’re devising a story that would make a good show and the other half are looking to be emotionally ransacked, so story heavy games that put the worldbuilding and decisions in the hands of the players is perfect for me.
only watching one franchise film series with all of cinema available.
Getting some Boss Baby vibes from your comment
I stopped at 2.5e and did recently start learning a bit about pathfinder.
FitD is my favorite non-crunchy system. I don’t want to call it “rules light” because it isn’t that light. But it is great.
